Engineering Quality Podcast – episode on Holistic Testing

Ale Moreira, Royalee Martin, Veronika Pliusnina and Lisa Crispin chat on the Quality Engineering podcast on YouTube

The Engineering Quality Podcast is one of my favorite podcasts. The hosts, Ale, Veronika and Royalee bring their wide range of experience in all areas of testing and quality to each episode. Each episode, I have gotten so many helpful insights from them. I especially enjoy listening because they bring so much joy and energy […]

Some ways we can lead for quality

Cover art for Software Testing Unleashed podcast episode showing Lisa and her mini donkey Ernest

More than ever, we testing and quality professionals need to be quality leaders for our teams. The job title or role doesn’t matter, competencies and energy to influence do. Too many “agile” teams still struggle along in a mini waterfall. Testers may be embedded on cross-functional teams, but developers still throw testing to the testers […]

Why I love testing, and love helping others find testing joy too

target with why in the center, then how, then what

Why do I love software testing, and helping others find their own testing joy? The latest book we are reading in the DevOps Book Club, led by the awesome Tristan Lombard and Niranjani Manoharan, is Start with Why by Simon Sinek. Starting with “why” has always made sense to me. Gojko Adzic’s Impact Mapping was […]

Guested on podcasts about testing and DevOps!

QA Therapy podcast logo

I had the honor to participate in two podcasts recently. One is the “QA Therapy” podcast with my friends Sergio Freire and Cristiano Cunha. We chatted about ways to fit testing into DevOps. Check out their other episodes too, they’re talking with lots of awesome folks! The other is the RedHat Compiler podcast. They talked […]